Quotes About Achievement

The main reason I'm in this sport is not to run mouths and make posts on Twitter and stuff. It's to compete.

From the time I was growing up, if I felt that there was some, like, pot of gold waiting for me, I don't know that I would have been so motivated.

My dad said, 'If you want to go out with girls and go out with your friends, get a job.' I found one at the local country club as a pot washer in the kitchen.

Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness.

The word 'potential' used to hang over me like a cloud.

It's perseverance that's the key. It's persevering for long enough to achieve your potential.

Education is all about igniting young minds and enabling them to attain their fullest potential.

The greatest barrier to someone achieving their potential is their denial of it.

I'm the first to admit that I never achieved my potential as an actress.

What we look for in the school is unrealized potential.

It's not my goal to beat anybody in particular, it's about achieving what I think my potential is.

All human beings are very creative - full of potential, full of energy... So, money kind of allows them to express it... And if you're successful, you can take more money. You can expand your capacity, reach next level of capacity, and so on.

My life guided me to express my full potential.

I want to maximize my potential. And when I talk about that, don't get me wrong - I'm not talking about just making money.

If we're gonna win, we have to play up to and beyond our potential. We're capable of doing that.

I don't think any player lives up to his potential, because people out there put you so high on a pedestal, you'll never be as good as they expect.

If you look at my career, I've never gone to a team that had fulfilled their potential.

I came from a lower-middle-class postwar family in a time of austerity and retrenchment, with no one in the family who was in any way artistic or a potential mentor to a budding writer, and yet this is what I became.

I think the world sort of looks to the kids who have potential. These are the kids who are going to do something with their lives, who are going to do something for the world. I don't think it's malicious, but the other kids get lost from that point on.

I love to do things like sail and hike, but they don't give me the satisfaction of knowing the potential of something you've learned in the lab.

Many feel discouraged because they have not measured up to their potential.

I would like to go back to school, potentially.

I thought law school was more like the guillotine. I didn't really think I would make it; I just thought this is one of the few ways to potentially get respect, to go to law school.

I think the three Mexican directors that came before me did a very good job in Hollywood because they came in and started directing things like 'Harry Potter.'